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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/colvinj/status/1752709099265876407[/twitter][/quote]
That is one of the sadder articles I have ever read on that subject and somehow, the best written. The clarity, the total lack of couching that Qanon and similar usually get even in stories that are ultimately negative about them… this one is bare bones and it is so much more brutal for it.

“The AP spoke with more than a dozen people whose lives were disrupted by conspiracy theories — either because they believed them or because a close loved one did.

Many spoke of the social isolation that comes from spending more and more time on conspiracy theory websites and message boards.

They talked about money lost to investment scams or products that claimed to reverse aging or cure COVID-19. They talked about a mounting sense of paranoia and distrust as they began to lose faith in their community and their fellow Americans.”

The sad thing is just how mainstream this is in the GOP and how much it drives their decisions, even people who present more or less normally. I guess because I know so many people like this from where I grew up, and some are family, that I can see the paths they took to get to the places they arrived and it’s very, very sad. [/quote]

It's not mainstream in the GOP. For quite a while, polls showed that R voters were barely aware of the existence of qanon while Ds were hearing about it in the media

Q was coming from a rich eccentric pig farmer in the Philippines.[/quote]

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